Potter star down under

HARRY Potter star Daniel Radcliffe may be coming to Australia as
the star of an erotically charged play in which he strips off to
perform a nude scene.

The 17-year-old has made millions of fans, and dollars, as the
star of the films about the boy wizard, based on the books by J. K.
Rowling. The fifth film, Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix, will be released on July 12 and he is contracted for
the final two films in the series.

Next month Radcliffe will play his final performance of
Equus in London's West End.

A statement from the production  a revival of the 1973
hit, which was later adapted to a film starring Richard Burton
 confirmed a Broadway run in mid-2008, "followed by an
Australian production".

The casting and dates for the New York run have yet to be
announced, but London's Daily Mail reported that Radcliffe
and co-star Richard Griffiths (Pie in the Sky) have agreed
to transfer the production to New York in May or June 2008.

Radcliffe's family owns a house in Toorak and the star spent
months in Melbourne and South Australia on the 2005 shoot of
December Boys, which will be released in September.

Peter Shaffer's play stars Radcliffe as a disturbed English
stable boy who blinds six horses with a spike. Griffiths portrays a
psychiatrist who attempts to discover the source of his psychosis.
The pair appear together in the Harry Potter series.